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"HIAWATHA" 




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**Oh My Childrvn** 



' The Book of the Play 

of 

HIAWATHA 

The Mohawk 

depicting the Siege of 

HOCHELAGA 

and the 

BATTLE OF 
LAKE CHAMPLAIN 

This Hbretto is necesssary to fully 
enjoy the stage production. 



Copyright ffiilwWWr by , ^ 

W, D. LlGHTHALI. AND V. O. ARMSTRONG 



1909 



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PREFATORY NOTE. 

Tlie success of Mr. L. O. Armstrong for several years with liis 
famous Indian dramatic representation of " Hiawatha, the 
Ojibway;" the equal success of his Indian contingent at the great 
Quebec Tercentenary of 1908, brought about his still larger 
undertaking of an Indian Pageant for the Lake Champlain Ter- 
centenary. 

The history of the Lake and of all the Northern States opens 
with Samuel de Champlain's fight with the Iroquois here in 1609. 
It is now known that their presence on Lake Champlain was a 
result of their having been driven out by the Hurons and Algon- 
quins from Hochelaga (Montreal) and Stadacona (Quebec) 
where Jacques Cartier had found them dwelling in 1535. The 
history of their romantic wars and of the founding of their re- 
markable T/oague by Hiawatha is told in Lighthall's recent 
romance "The Master of Life" which Mr. Armstrong has used as 
the basis of the Pageant in leading us to the historic battle of 
Lake Champlain. 

The Indian Players are drawn from the Reservations at 
Caughnawaga, St. I'rancis, Oka in Quebec and from Brantford 
Garden River, St. Regis in Ont., and from Onondaga, N. Y. In 
the cast. Scar Face is a direct descendant of Eunice Williams 
captured at Dccrfield in 1704. While very little white blood 
remains in him, that little has a distinctly New England at- 
mosphere. 

In the depiction, the ancient arts, customs and dress have 
been studied. 



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HIAWATHA THE MOHAWK. 

Friendly meeting for trade of Hochelagas and 
Algonkins at Tiotiake (Montreal). 

Scene I. 

A fire is solemnly lit. The Peace Pipe is pre- pipe of Peac*. 
sented to the leaders of all tribes. Awitharoa, the 
great Peace Chief of the Hochelaga nation (later 
one of the tribes of the Iroquois confederacy) talks Awitharoa. 
of past and present friendship, with the hope of 
long continuing a peace which is so profitable to 
all nations. 



The Algonquin champion, "The Black Wol- 
verine," and the Hochelaga champion Hiawatha 
I race together in running down a stag. A canoe race 
is arranged while waiting for the result of the race 
with the deer. After canoe race, Awitharoa says, 
Algonquins — Hochelagas — our fathers met yours 
on this island before the memory of any of the 
living. Here were always seen the Hochelaga 
Bear and the Algonquin Rabbit — the totems of 
friends. The great pine tree under which our fore- 
fatiiers and we ourselves met has gone, but that we 
may continue close friends I give to each of your 
chiefs a wampum belt pictured with a pine tree. 

(Holi! Hoh! Algonquins.) That you may forget 
your ills and have incense for sacrifice to the Mani- 
tou I give you this tobacco (asogun) raised not by 
women but by our warriors. 

Here is maize. May the demon of want never 
come near your wigwam. 

For your protection I give you these amulets 
of black stone; they will drive away Windigos and 
all evil things. 

People of the Northern Lights — -Algonquins, 
my nation — the Hochelagas, and yours are one 
house. Whenever you are hungry come into our 
wigwams and sit down by the fires; our women 
will bring you corn; they will spread your mats; 
we will pass you the pipe. 

(Algonquins, Hoh! Hoh!) 

Nikona (.of the Algonquins) patriarch (says), 
Our people have no crops — no crafts. We are not 
as yours, who can make palisades and houses and 
amulets: ye are a wonderful nation, but our northern 
country is full of moose and wapiti. I give you 
these skins for leggings and moccasins, which your 
women will make and decorate beautifully. Here 
is a hill of skins. Here are bags of war paint. Here 
are strings of shell wampum. Say to yourselves, 
what is more beautiful than the peace which they 
represent. And to thee Awitharoa I give this axe 
of sharp green copper. It is full of magic for the 
cutting of trees and slaying of foes. 

Z?^ 3 



Indians 
against stag 
in a race and 
a canoe race 
between Al- 
gonquins and 
Ojibways. 



Wampum 
belt of bark. 



Gives belts. 



Gives tobacco. 



Maize. 



Black Stone 
Amulets. 



Nikona, the 

Algonquin 

speaks. 



Gives skinf. 



SheU 
wampum. 

Gives copper 
axe. 



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Description of 
end of race. 

Hiawatha ap- 
pears with 
deer on his 
shoulder. 



Red feather. 



Hoh! Hoh! Hec! ahee ee hoh. 

(The runners! The runners! Iroquois.) 

Hiawatha and tlie Wolverine appear on the other 
side. The race is ended. Hiawatha is the victor 
Hiawatha, come to the Council. Ho. Ho. 
Awitharoa. 

Hiawatha, I crown you the swiftest of warriors. 
Next year, Algonquins, it may be your turn to 
win. We are proud of Hiawatha this year. Give 
me the red feather. Here Hiawatha. You are a i 
chief and will sit in all Councils. At the corn 
FE.\ST to-morrow you sliall light the sacred fire. 

Haul up front curtain. Arrange corn scene. 

Scene II. 



Corn Feast. 



Kwenhia, the 
Corn Maiden. 



Dressing of 
Kwenhia. 



Invocation. 



Medicine men 

with masks 

come and 

dance. 

Hatiria's call. 



Preparations 

go on for 

Corn Festival. 



Awitharoa. 

What is the custom, O grandmother? 
Kawi, 

Ye shall choose the most beautiful, our ancestors f 
said. 

QuENHiA Appears. 
Kawi. 

Yea, verily she is Adohasu the beautiful maiden. 
Awitharoa. 

Thou art Osizi, the spirit of Maize — the daughter i 
of the Sun. 

(Dressing of Kwenliia. See book, The Master of 
Life.) 

Hiawatha lights the sacred fire. 
Awitharoa. 

O! Host of the warrior dead! Accept our thanks. 

Our Ancestors. Continue to listen! O Red 
Chief of men and spirits, we oflfer thee the pipe of 
peace. 

(The three maidens have disappeared.) 

(Tlie Council assembles — The Mystery Men.) 
Hatiria. 

Listen. Listen, daughters of the sun. Maize- 
maiden! Bean-maiden! Squash maiden! appear. 
Listen ! 

O, Three come forth. 
Keep watch. 
Let us worship. 

(Black Wolverine and five himters appear with 
Ojil)way feathers.) 
Awitharoa. 

Blrick ^\'olvorine and Warriors, — Welcome. 
Black Wolverine. 

Your runner, Hiawatlia, beat me in the race, but 
we think we are better hunters tlian your people. 
We challenge Hiawatha and five of j-our hunters ■ 
to hunt bear at the Lake of the Tw'o Mountains 
against myself and these live Algonquins. 
Hiawatha. 

Black Wolverine, I accept the challenge. Will 
you be our guests? Our women will cook for you 
and a new lodge will be prepared for you to sleep 
in. Our yoimg men and maidens will sing to you. 
Join in our corn festival. 

The Three Maidens Appear. 
Old Woman. 

They are the most beautiful ever chosen. 

(Background of corn and heaps of corn.) 

(Painted corn scenes.) (Corn song and grinding.) 
Awitharoa . 



Hiawatha! Hochelaga's is a happy people. 

Hiawatha sits at door of his mother's and great 
grandmother's house. Kawi. Woman cooking. 
Onata to Kwenhia. 

My child, sit down here; you don't eat with us 
often enough. 
Kahawi. 

The custom of the mothers is the men before the 
women; the guests before the household; old before 
young. 
Kwenhia to Hiawatha. 

Where is your caribou skin? How does it feel 
to be a chief? 
Onata. 

The skin is soaking in the water, I am making 
him a shirt of it. 
Kwenhia. 

Let me come and decorate it with you. I will 
put on a figure of a man with a long feather. 
Kawi. 

Wait! the slayer must say the invocation. 
Hiawatha(prays). 

O stag, bear me no ill will for slaying thee; it was 
for the glory of my tribe. Graze in endless peace 
with thy people in the forest of the land of souls. 
Kwenhia. 

When you are a great chief, Hiawatha, when you 
walk sternly among the warriors, do not forget your 
little sister Kwenliia. Wlien I saw you go up to the 
Council place this morning, it seemed as if I had 
lost my brother. 
Hiawatha. 

Fear not, my little one. Let us go and sit at the 
lake side and listen to the voice of the night. 

(Algonquins are invited into the long houses and 
,with others disappear. A hidden choir sing softly 
' the Caughnawaga song (Konoronkwa) and others. 
Kwenhia. 

What art thou saying to thyself? 
Hiawatha. 

Ha! lia! I was thinking how pleasant are swift 
hunting and racing and archery and listening to 
the adventures of renowned chiefs; but more than 
all how the greatest joy would be war. We of the 
Sacred Island, Tiotiake, are dishonored for want 
of enemies; we do not fight enough, it is always 
peace, peace. In the spring I will give a feast to 
the young men, and call on them to follow me to 
Stadacona, and there we will form a war party. 
In that way I shall bring honor upon our tribe, the 
mother and leader of the mex of men, the Hoche- 
lagas. 
Kwenhia. 

But, Hiawatha, will not the enemy come in return 
and kill some of us? 
Hiawatha. 

Tlioy will come, they will lie in wait for us among 
the Isl-ands and reeds, and along the paths of the 
woods, even up to the wall of the town. They will 
slay here and there some of our braves, but then 
we shall hunt them again and bring home the long 
scalps and the trophies. They shall bo Inmg upon 
THE POLES BEFORE OUR LODGE.s, and the fires shall 
shine upon warriors telling of glorious deeds, and 
we shall be indeed men of men. 



Hiawatha and 
Kwenhia at 

the door of his 

mother's lodge 
They speak 

together about 

Hiawatha's 

future. 



Kwenhia. 

Tl>y thoughts are the thoughts of the mountain, 
but I am only tlie httle sumach; I hear the waihng 
of the women; the widows are many; the mothers 
have blacivened their faces, and the virgins fear 
to go into tiie corn fields. ' 

Hiawatha, 

Warriors must endure these things; to be men 
is first before all. 
Kwenhia. 

And what if the enemy should kill thee also in 
the woods or among the reeds? 
Hiawatha. 
Moose looks Then the mother of Hiawatha will notbe ashamed. 
°"- Kwenhia. 

She liath but thee. 
Hiawatha. 

Yes me only. 

Kwenhia, (Takes a silver cross out of her breast and 
holds it up.) 

Tall brother, the spirits, my people, whisper to 
me, " Peace." My Father, the Spirit, when he 
gave me this, tauglit my Mother that the Master 
of Life hateth war; that his Son is Chief of Peace; 
and that when wounded he smote not back but was 
nailed to the stake. That is like tliat one the white 
ghosts placed upon the mountain top. 
Hiawatha. 

How could so mighty a chief endure such shame? 
Kwenhia. 

It is tiio teaching of the Spirits. 
Hiawatha. 

Tlic wisdom of the Spirits is wonderful. 
Kwenhia. 

If I ask thee for something wilt thou give it? 
Hiawatha. 

Have I ever refused thee anything? ^ 

Kwenhia. 

A white bead then from thy belt. 
Hiawatha. (Jumping up ) 

Ah. listen. 
Kwenhia. 

A ghost. 
Hiawatha. 

Moose (two men in a moose skin) inside the 
aweTrand" stockade— after examination. (Calls the war- 
leave skin and riors.) 
escape in Awitharoa. 
canoe. This was no moose. This was two strangers — 

good hvmters — mighty warriors. Tliey came from 
the sunset; they must be followed — the matter is 
grave. Let the criers call the braves to council, 
and thither let Kawi and tlie aged men be brought. 
Kawi. 

"I am the last of the children of the founders — 
yea, the last. When I was a papoose on the board, 
as my mother told me, we came out of the Land 
of the Sun. There were great lakes and falls, corn- 
Finds an axe fields, and much red copper and red stone for pipes, 
and examines (),(. ]^Q\y gift, of the Master of Life. It was the land 
'*■ of the Hurons, our forefathers. The Holder of the 

Heavens said: "Ye must built canoes and sail 
down the river towards the sunrise. I have made 
for you an island on a great river, full of herds of 



deer and monstrous sturgeons and Maskenonzay 
and lofty forests. For ye are the men of men. Thus 
were we led to tlie Sacred Island Tiotiake on wliich 
we built Hochelaga. Our chief was Tehari, the 
eloquent, the ancestor of Tekarihoken who is here. 

Now the totem of this axe (holds it up and points 
to handle), which it bears on its handle, is the 
Crane. These strangers are of our kindred, Hurons. 
lakonon (roars out). 

Kinsmen come not as spies in moose skins. The 
kinsmen who do this would slay us if they could. 
Let the swiftest runners seek their tracks, and let 
all strangers, and especially these treacherous 
Hurons, understand well that it is best to keep far 
from our country." 
Awitharoa. 

My children, our fathers said ' Kindred must not 
be destroyed. ' If the men be found ye must offer 
them the pipe and receive them by fires; ye must 
share with them the pottage that is ready. But 
their trail must first be found. Let warriors who 
have taken scalps or won races follow then, and, 
finding them, offer the pipe, for the laws of peace 
are the people's safety as well as the laws of war. 
But every night the gate-keepers must now keep 
watch by turns at the gate and along the top of the 
wall. 
Kawi. 

No such trouble hath come since the visit of the 
MEN-EATixG ghosts to this Island. (Terror and 
commotion throughout the assembly.) 
Kawi. 

" It is like it. In the time of Kwenhia's grand- 
mother came the men-eating ghosts to the town. 
They left this behind them. They came from the 
sunrise out of the great water in great canoes, pushed 
by white clouds of white skin. By their faces, we 
knew they were ghosts; at first we took them for 
gods, for they brought thunder in their hands and 
lightning, which came out of their fire sticks, and 
gave gifts and spoke softly. We received them at 
the river and brought them into the town and up 
to the top of the mountain. We gave them our 
best. The chief of the ghosts spoke many things 
to us in the language of the dead, healing also our 
sick by magic with his hands, afterward the peace- 
chief of Stadacona and some of his people were 
carried away by them and eaten, and never heard 
of again, and such was their intention towards us. 

Some of the Stadaconans pretended they were 
white men, and no men have canoes with thunder 
and lightning in them. Now, these Moose men, 
see how they too will bring us affliction! This is my 
wisdom — to compare one event with another. 
Crier. 

The six Algonquins are ready! 

Hiawatha and his men are getting ready when a 
cry is heard. (War). 

Man approaching in canoe cries — 

Koweh! Koweh! War! War! 
lakonon. 

Koweh ! Koweh ! 

Answer — -Koweh! (All mounting fortifications.) 
Koweh! Koweh! 
lakonon, the Buffalo. 

What is it my brother? 



The axe of the 
Hurons. 



lakonon orders 
the pursuit of 
the enemy. 



American Horse 
as Awitharoa 
counsels mod- 
eration. 



Warrior finds 
trail. 



Lift up behind 
her a large 

French cross, 
with shield 

inscribed Fran- 
cis Rex, and 
fleurs-de-lis 

on the cross. 



The White 

Spirits 

Visit Jacques 

Cartier in 

1535- 



Black Wolver- 
ine and his 
men are ready 
when there is 
heard the war 
cry of a war- 
rior. 



Kwenhia and 



Wolverine. 



Warrior (says) 

At the Lake — above the great Rapid. Last 
night as I passed the wood I saw a canoe of elra- 
Ijark of five paddles — two men slept under it — one 
kept watch. They had no fire. Their faces had the 
Onata do not w.vR-PAiNT. I hid — covered myself with moss. Two 
like the Bjack others came running fast through the woods. Their 
faces were painted. When they pulled out their 
canoe and started westward I ran out and hailed 
them "Okanagucn?" of what tribe be ye friends?" 
One rose in the canoe and saying: "Of the Hurons, 
thou coward," and drew bow and sent an arrow 
into this arm; the others derided me. They paddled 
swiftly across the Lake. Their speech was strange, 
and yet like ours. 
lakonon. 

Those were the moose men. Thinkest thou our 
men could catch them? Had they corn or meat 
with them? 

Brave. 

None, I think, 
lakonon. 

They must stop then to hunt or fish. Away 
braves. Take pouches of corn about your necks. 

Black Wolverine watches very closely. 

Black Wolverine and one of his men exchange 
signs and nudges. 

Naked hunters, only breech cloths. 

As Hiawatha and Black Wolverine leave 
Kwenhia (says) 

\\'(nild better it were war than this! I like not the 
Black Wolverine. He is a spy, I fear. 

(Women make pottery). 
Onata. 

Little daughter, it is not the part of women to 
show fear for sons and brothers, and therefore I 
went not to see my son depart. Before you were 
born we had many wars. Every spring our braves 
sang their songs and went out on the path against 
the enemies. We women incited them to go, and 
if any man held back we danced the coward's 
dance around him, we offered him our pots to boil, 
the hoe, and a woman's skirt. When our men re- 
turned victorious we met them with crowns of 
feathers and sang songs of their valor. Happy was 
the girl whose lover brought home scalps or wounds, 
or who wore in his hair a new feather. A mother 
MUST give her sons to war! 
Kwenhia. 

"If this were but an open war! What if the Black 
Wolverine would take Hiawatha unawares." 
Onata. 

He will not take him unawares. 

(Q. goes into gate.) 



Black Wolver- 
ine watches. 
He has ar- 
ranged all this 
he is a spy 
himself. 



Women talk 

together of 

their distrust 

of Black Wol- 



CuRTAix — Five Days L.\ter. 



Girls. 
Warrior 
chants. 



Girls who have been gathering nuts. 

They hear a chant. (Girls exclaim.) 

A dirge. 
Karonihares — the swift runner, with ashes on his 
face. 

• Tell me mothers of Hochelaga, where are your 
children. Those that ye carried on cradle boards, 
and that ran about your knees; whom your eyes 



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delighted to follow in the ball game; who were 
first in hunting; first in war! Maidens, where are 
vour lovers? Where is thy son, O mother of Shade 
Ivaro neves? (Mother shrieks). 

^^'here is thy son, Onata? Where is Hiawatha? 
the Pine tree, the pleasure of all the others. (Wail 
from Onata. Scream from Kwenliia. All the 
women wail.) 

Five is their number, I alone am left. 

They travel through the dark of the woods on their 
way to the happy hunting grounds. 

On the long, long path to the West they go. 
Across the dark river behind the sunset — across the 
Dark River they wend to the villages of the de- 
parted. 
Awitharoa. 

Tell us Karonihares! 
Karonihares (says) 

We camped by the fort of the Long Rapid of 
Ottawa. The Algonquins were boastful. Tliey 
told us they would kill more game than we would. 
We killed more, much more, than they. The 
Wolverine was in bad temper. Hiawatha warned 
me to keep watch and to wake him for his watch. 
I was very tired. I fell almost hard asleep. I opened 
ray eyes and saw six Algonquins standing each with 
his stone hammer, waiting for a sign to strike 
together. Wolverine was over Hiawatha. The 
man standing over me was looking at Wolverine 
for a sign. My arms had been taken away. I gave 
a great shout and ran. I heard the crunch of the 
hammers and the groans told me the rest. Hia- 
watha, jumped up. I saw him, stunned and 
bleeding, stagger to the edge of the rocks, reel, and 
fall into the Rapids and sink. I escaped to tell you 
the story. 

(Avengers shout and strike the old war-post.) 
Awitharoa. 

I call a Lodge of Silence at once. Smoke the 
pipe, burn tobacco, pass the great pipe in silence. 
Awitharoa. 

We are met together this night. The Master of 
Life has appointed the time. 

To death have they gone upon whom we were 
wont to look. Sorrowrful, let us condole together. 
Speakers (to Onata). 

We are sorry for you. We will avenge you 
though it takes years. 

Two scalps will we take for every one, and more 
unless the Algonquins make great gifts and ex- 
plain — ■ 
Awitharoa. 

It may be that the Algonquins will punish Wol- 
verine for breaking his faith — if they do not we will 
punish the nation. 

Prepare the town against attack. 

Send to Hochelay, Sekenonday, Stadacona, 
Satahdin. Tell our brethren. 

Let messages go to the tribes on the Lake of the 
South Wind and the Southern river that runs to the 
sea. 

Curtain. 

Keraronwe and Tekarihoken appear on ridge 
after having visited the scene of the massacre of the 
Hochelaga hunters. 

9 



Indian lam- 
entation. 



Onata adopts 
as sons those 
who are going 
to avenge Hia- 
watha. 



DeKaneweda 

leaves in a 

canoe for last 

effort for peace 



Keraronwe. 

W'c lia\c Ixi-n wlifTf Iliawatlia was killed. 
Tekarihoken. 

Our brothor.s who went out hunting with Hia- 
watha were scalpqd. Clan of the Turtle. The law 
of the chiefs connnands us to avenge our brother 
Hiawatha. 
Wolfsky. 

The spirits of Shade Karonyes and White Eagle 
n]irnach us. 
Wood-drift. 

I\cni('nii)er our slain brothers. 

(War (lance, sliarpen weapons, arrow makers.) 
Tekarihoken to Onata, (Laying belt of white wam- 
pum near her.) 

None shall reproach us with remaining slothful 
in our sorrow. We shall obey our ancestors. This 
BELT SHOWS SIX BLACK MEN upon it, wliicli signifies 
that the six snakes which killed tiiy son are already 
as good as dead. Mother adopt us. 
Onata, 

I take you as mj' sons, I adopt you. 
Awitharoa. 

Young warriors, our enemies are many, we are 
not yet fully trained for war. We will send am- 
bassadors to ask for reparation. Better wait than 
be defeated. 
Onata. 

There can be no reparation for my dead son, but, 
new sons of mine! listen to Awitharoa. Cause not 
other mothers to mourn the death of their sons 
needlessly. 
Awitharoa. 

DeKaneweda, go seven days up the river of 
Sunset. Make a strong effort to have the Algon- 
quins make reparation for their misdeeds — if you 
cannot, then it must be war. 



Curtain. 



Three Weeks Later. 



Red hatchet. 



DeKaneweda. 

I have returned from the land of the Algon- 
quins! The Black Wolverine was there. Tlie 
moose men — spies were there! I have failed. The 
old Sachem Tessonat counselled peace, but finally 
came to my lodge and told me that the Hurons, 
the far-off Ojibways. the Xipissings and all the 
Algonquins had declared war against us. We 
heard the war songs and the hatchets .striking the 
posts. They will come to fight us. They say thej- 
will torture us and make our women slaves, 
lakonon, the Buffalo. 

Get ready. Wc will fight as our fathers did. 
They are ten to one. We may be beaten at first 
but we will win at last. We have two months to 
prepare. 

Young men in ring. War dance. Sing chants. 
Drive red h.vtchet in post, red feathers, black 
wampum. Big drum. War preparations, lashing, 
bark buckets and carriers, stones, water. 
Awitharo. 

Let us sleep. 



Curtain. 



10 



Interlude. 

Canoe songs, family go to sleep. Marriage cere- 
mony, loe laughs at his rival. loe courts and is 
accepted. 

Great Drum Sounds. 
The Siege. 
Hurons and Algonquins crawling up but still out painted scouts 

of sight. of the enemy. 

Pounding corn. Boys shooting. 
Onata. 

The gate! The gate. 

Shout and advance of Hiawatha and Awitharoa. 
Awitharoa. 

To the platforms. lakonon, knock down that 
pillar of dogs. 
Buffalo. 

The snakes. (Action — knocks them down.) 

Keraronwe. 

Shoot better! Shoot better — ye are sleeping, my Enemy reHres. 
friends. Tekarihoken 

(Tekarihoken leaps over and scalps one.) places pole. 

While the Hurons and Algonkins are in hiding — climbs the pole 
places pole. again. 

Help, help, they are here in hundreds. Cry from the 

(Black Wolverine appears.) East End. 

Awitharoa. 

lakonon, place a sure arrow in thy bow — this 
skunk W^olverine hath not seen thee drive it through 
the moose. 
Black Wolverine to Onata. 

Art THOU then its mother? This is what is left j,. j^ w i 
of Hiawatha. See, it is mine now. I cut if off j,fg jj^^jig ^t 
his liead. Look upon my piece of tliy son, O mother Onata. 
of Hiawatha. 

I am the wolf — thou art an angry doe. 
Onata. 

Give me back m}^ son, evil one, give me what 
thou hast of him. lakonon snoots 

Shields and fire put out. Sorties in attempts to and Wolver- 
get water.) i^e dies. 

(Men killed and taken into the woods.) Enemies. 

Enemies' Herald. 

Surrender Hochelagas, you have no water left 
and we will let you have none. If you surrender 
we will give, their lives to the women, children and 
old men. 

R,ushing up, children and women cry. Never, 
never, cowards. 
Dekaneweda (answers Herald. ) 

Hurons, we are of tlie same people. We have a 
woman among us wlio is a grandmother of some Dekaneweda 
of your people, and also of some of ours; she is tlie with pipe, 
oldest woman in tlie tribe. 

Hurons cease when they see pipe. 
Huron chiefs. 

We would see the oldest woman very gladly. 

(Carry her out on litter.) 
Old woman. 

I am one of j^ours — in face — in talk — in dress — 
we have the same Master of Life. Make with us, 
therefore, a league of brotherhood; we will give 
rich gifts as a price for your dead, and you shaH 
go home and tell how you have found nephews. 

11 



To 

Awitharoa 

Great Chief. 



Huron's offer 
terms. 



Hochelagans 
refuse terms. 



Awitharoa's 
appeal to the 
Hochelagas. 



A breach in 
the palisades. 



Hiawatha 
comes with 
other supposed 
spirits and at- 
tacks enemy 
which run. 



Hurons discuss, and later their 
Herald says — 

Awitliaroa, Great Chief, we honor tlie old woman, 
and if she will come out to us we will take her hack 
to her people. You are our cousins, but our cousins 
are many and they are not all our friends, and if 
we have too many friends, of whom would our 
young men obtain their scalps. We cannot go 
home without scalps, what would we say to our 
women? How shall we content our allies, the .\1- 
gonquins, the people of the Northern Lights? How 
shall we pay them for the loss of their great chief 
Wolverine and many others. We will do this. A 
sacrifice is necessary to give peace to the spirits 
of our dead. Give us your wise Head Chief, 
Awitharoa, to pass through the fire, and we will 
let you go out and leave this country safely, but 
forever after when we meet you we will kill you. 
Hochelagans. 

Never! Never! 
Huron Herald. 

Then are you alreadj^ as dead. The fight will go 
on. 

(Hurons disappear.) 
Awitharoa. 

I would speak to all the Hochelagans. This 
night the Hochelagans will fight as they never 
fought before. Rememlier, we are called the men 
OF MEN. Those of us who go to our ancestors will 
not be afraid to tell them how we died. If a breach 
should be made and the enemy get through the 
wall, remember that I have set the children and the 
old people in the barricade inside the gate. There 
we will fight afresh. If ye drive off the wolves this 
night Hochelaga will be saved. But if the place 
fall, let none give himself up; let all die; our Father 
to-morrow must not look upon a coward. 

Hurons place fires. Axes cut down stakes. 

First Algonquins knocked down — others press in. 
Awitharoa sa)'s 

To the barricades. 

All the Hurons crowd around the breach — when 
Hiawatha and party appear they run in awe — 
Hiawatiia follows to west end (Hurons run). 
Awitharoa. 

We thank thee, O Master of Life, for saving thy 
people. 

Hiawatha (returning from chasing the enemy). 

Hochelagans fall on their faces. 
Awitharoa. 

() Spirit of Hiawatha, most revered. 
Hiawatha. 

F(>ar me not — I am no spirit — I am Hiawatha. 
Awitharoa, 

We revere thee. Who are the might v ones with 
thee? 
Hiawatha. 

They are Hochelagans from the Solitary Mis. 
and our brotiiers, the Onondagans. It seems we 
have not been too early. Ye have no water — 
liring it — -Drink in safety. 
Awitharoa. 

Most honourable (placing head-dress) head 
chief do I make thee on the field of battle — you 
have saved the whole nation. 



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All. 

Hoh. Hoh. Hoh. 
Awitharoa to Hiawatha. 

Tell us what happened thee at the hands of the 
Wolverine, who is dead now — lakonon killed him — 
we thought thee drowned in the rapid. 
Hiawatha. 

I thought myself drowning and I knew nothing 
until I found myself in the canoe of an Onondagan 
arrow maker — he had lost his nephew by the 
Hurons and he adopted me in his place — So that 
I am now of the great nations of the Onondagans— 
but I could not forget mine own people. The 
Master of Life told me to make our tribes one in 
peace and war. I was on my way to visit j'ou when 
I saw marks on the beach of Huron war canoes, 
numberless as ice-cakes on the Avater in the spring. 
I adopted the ghost stratagem because we were so 
few. But why do I not see my Mother and Kwen- 
HiA? (A minute silence.) 
Hiawatha. 

Where are their bodies? 

(Hiawatha sits down and throws his robe over 
his head.) 
Awitharoa. 

Take in more water! Put out sentinels. Be 
ready to run inside the barricades. The wolves 
are only frightened away for a time. Keep your- 
selves protected from the arrows. 
Sentinels cry 

Koweh, Koweh. Indians run behind barricades. 
Close the gates. Hurons and Algonquins return. 
Watch the barricade. 
Awitharoa. (Comes out among them and says: 

Men of the strange nation, 5'e have said ye will 
let my people go out and leave this country safely 
if they will give you their Head Chief to pass 
through the fire. Here I am — make the fire. 
(Page 100, Master of Life.) 
Huron Head Chief. 

Awitharoa, thou art of a race that has courage 
and glory. We are sorry that thou should'st die, 
but the spirits of our dead are in misery and thy 
spirit following after tliem shall gladden their 
hearts. We shall keep our honor with thee. 
Aguaron, take the great Calumet, tell the Hoche- 
lagas that they may pass out safely at sunrise, be- 
cause the Fire-god hath accepted the flesh of their 
Head Chief. 
Awitharoa (says) 

Tell them they must not try to rescue me. I have 
pledged my honor. Tell them that I await them 
with the braves of old in the hills of the Lake of the 
Southwind, where you will rebuild Hochelaga. " 

(Whoop, calling together all the Hurons and 
Algonquins.) 

Hurons, I would sing my death chant. 

Death song of Awitharoa. Triumphs of peace. 

All treaties I have kept; always honor I have 
maintained; feuds I have allayed, I have worked 
for the happiness of my people. 

Huron leaders invocation to fire, signal to Awith- 
aroa to enter. Lies down in fire. 
Awitharoa. 

I do this for thee Hochelaga. I do this for the 
little children. 



Hiawatha 
tells what hap- 
pened to him. 



Hiawatha 
hears of the 
death of his 
mother Onata 
and Kwenhia. 



Awitharoa 
offers himself 
a sacrifice. 



Huron chief 
to Awitharoa. 



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Huron mystery men rattle bells and drums. 
Huron Chief Huron chief raises his hand. Body taken from 
°ro"honour-' ^^^^- '^"'"-'^ ^'''" ^^ ^ S^oat chief should be buried, 
able burial. (Hurons and Algonquins all leave.) 

Scene. 

Departure of Hochelagas for Lake of the South 
Wind, (Ciiamplain.) All cry — Farewell Tiotiake, 
Farewell Hochelaga, Farewell good peace-chief, 
Ijcloved Awitharoa! 
lakonon. 

I'or a thousand moons and more we, ourselves, 
our cliildron, and our cliildren's children will light 
until no Huron and no Algonquin remains. 



lakonon's 
threat and 
prophecy of 

revenge. 



CUUT.VIN. 



The Arrow 
Maker visits 
the Mohawk 
on the Lake 
of the South 
Wind. 



Tells of Hia- 
watha's pro- 
posed confed- 
eracy. 



ScEXE Changed. 

Ten years later. 

On Lake Champlain. 

A camp fire and solitary warrior — a ruimer from 
tlic Hochelagas enters showing the pipe. 
Runner. 

Dokaneweda, the chief of the Hochelagas, sends 
luc to ask whence thou art. 
Arrow Maker. 

I am the arrow maker of the Onondagas — who 
iidopted your brother, the glorious Hiawatha, who 
loci you out of the burning. I have come to welcome 
you to the land of peace; it is wooded and full of 
fastnesses. There you can defend yourself against 
the Huron and the Northern Light. Thence you 
can send your parties to attack them — if they do 
ill. This is why ye have seen my smoke in the 
valley. Hiawatha would make an everlasting 
treaty of peace and alliance l)etwcen you and the 
Onondagas. In the valley of the Mohawk river 
you sluill dwell. Ye shall be called Moh.uvks, 
and the country will be yours. 

CURT.\IN. 



Scene. Eight Ye.\rs After. 
In the land of the Onondagas. 

Hiawatha meets with envy and trouble. 

Hatiria shows Hatiria. 

^Hiawat1ha°^ Arrow maker, our gods like not Hiawatha — they 
hate liim. 
Arrow Maker. 

■ But HE is a god — was it a man wlio could lie alone 
in the bushes on the rock of Ticonderoga and hold 
Ijack 70 Huron warriors l)y fear? Was it a man 
wlio traveled forty days within tlie land of the 
Algonquins, who walked at evening into the village 
of the Torch and up to the fire in the lodge of tiie 
Head-Chief Tessonat's son, took down his war 
club, slew and scalped him, and left a featlier beside 
him, for a sign to our enemies, marked with the 
mark of the Onondagas. Does not the war club of 
Tessonat's son hang on the post in my lodge! 
Surely! Hiawatha is a god! 

Hatiria. 
Chief of the ji jg Qnly a vile Mohawk. Not such is Atotarho, 
Unondagas. ■' 



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chief of the Onondagas, the greatest chief in the 
world. He is a true-born Onondaga. 
Arrow Maker. 

Hatiria, P'alse Face, I am a lover of all war- 
riors. Atotarho indeed is great. 
Hatiria. 

Hiawatha cures by roots, curing is our part, and 
we cure by the drum. He shall suffer for it. 
(Hatiria leaves.) 
Arrow Maker. 

Hatiria chatters like a crow, but he is danger- 
ous. He is a coward, but he can hunt and wound 
brave men with his tongue. 

Atotarho and the Snakes. 

Atotarho. 
Hatiria. 

Lightning of Onondaga. Lord of all nations. 
Great wolf! What meaneth the blood scent on the 
trail — 
Atotarho. 

Hath the Cherokees come up? 
Hatiria. 

Nay, nor the Huron. 
Atotarho. 

What meaneth thou? 
Hatiria. 

I dreamt last night that the Hemlock was tr/ing 
to overshadow the Pine — 
Atotarho. 

What was the meaning of thy dream? O False 
Face. 
Hatiria. 

The Pine is Atotarho — the Hemlock is Hiawatha. 
He boasts that he is greater than thou. 

A. 

Hiawatha does? 
H. 

Yea; he sang it in his song before the journey 
he is on — that journey the direction whereof none 
knoweth. 
A. 

But he is an adopted Onondagan — the son of our 
good Arrow-Maker. 
H. 

Thou knowest not what I know by my magic. 
I follow him on tliat journey, and I see him paddling 
to their sacred Island. 
A. 

Still, are not the Mohawks brothers to us — 
Hiawatha has fought well for us. 
H. 

It has puffed his heart. 
A. 

He has fought by my side — we are brothers in 
clan. 
H. 

His craft is deep. — He rises by thy help. He has 
learnt war from thee. In my shell I hear him boast- 
ing that he goes back to their island to build up his 
own people again and make them the masters. 
A. 

Be silent, until I consult my oracles, the snakes. Atotarho'i 
(Holding up a snake.) snakes 

15 



What sayest thou? Shall it be war with the 
Consultation Mohawks? 

Tliou wouldest bite me — Thus the Mohawk would 
do, thou savest. 

Now, tell me shall it be war, then, with the Mo- 
hawks? Thou sayest yes — Thou givest me another 
war to add to ray glory. It will be war with the 
Mohawks. 

Now, shall Hiawatha die? Thou escapest? He 
is then to escape — Thine answers are plain. 
H.\tiria! I shall make war with tiie Mohawks, 
but thou, thyself, shalt deal with Hiawatha. Per- 
haps he, too, is as they say in part god; and, verily, 
he seems sometimes wiser and different — yea and 
braver, than a man. 
Hatiria. 
War against False faces — It is to be war with the Mohawks — 
t^« Mohawks. Call the people — (People make no sign of appro- 
■ '^°%ock. '"^ bation). 

Scene. 

Hiawatha approaching in his canoe — Bees the 
war signal. 
Little Boy. 

Hiawatha, Hiawatha! What news, Hiawatha? 
Hiawatha. 

^\'hy is this fire burning? 
Woman. 

To answer Atotarhos yonder. 
Hiawatha. 

Has the Huron struck our hamlets? 
"Woman. 

Atotarho strikes the Mohawk. 
Arrow Maker. 

Son, I have told them this war is evil! 
Hiawatha. 

All war is evil — Let us have peace, we need 
alliance, not defiance. I am tired. I will rest. 

(Hiawatha sleeps.) 
Arrow Maker. 
Mohawk pris- 1''^ warriors return — I hear their chants of vic- 
oners entering torv — the scalpers exult — This is the work of 

°t^each^ry. Mohawk Chief (Prisoners enter). 

Strike hard, ye feeble people. Ye are foxes and 
muskrats, but ye snap at bears. Ye are little flies 
that know not how to make a man wince. 

You have lost your honor — You broke the peace 
guaranteed by the calumet — You will be punished — 
Your scalps shall wave before the Lodges of our 
men — the men of men. 

(HlAWATH.^. 8PRIN08 UP.) 

Arrow Maker. 

Be still. Leave the Mohawks to my care — Go 
thou to the Council. 
The old At- (Arrow-maker gives them water — Drink calmly 
row maker is — Pipe to all five prisoners, 
merciful to Arrow Maker. 

prisoners. j^ .^ ^^. ^^ ^^ careful, we have broken the faith 

Hiawatha calls e a\ r> i i 

a council, of tlie Lalumet. 

To all — Touch not these men until the Council 
have deliberated. 
Hiawatha. 

I call a Council. 

(Council.) 
Hiawatha. 
• Brothers of the Hill — I have been on a long jour- 

10 



ney to the Northwest — I have communed with the 
Great Spirit. He has spoken to me. Do you wish 
a proof — Hear me! In my vision I saw that the 
number ye have slain in this war is four. If this be 
right my words are from the gods — • 

(Exclamations.) I see at the head of the four 
who are travelling, an old Chief. His forehead is 
painted, and his left breast is pierced by a broken 
arrow. If this be right, my words are from the gods 
— (cries and groans). The youngest is a youth 
without a feather, but a hammer has crushed his 
skull and he carries a broken knife; if this be right, 
my words are from the gods — Hush. 
War Chief. 

The very least thou hast said is true. 
Hiawatha. 

I have been to Tiotiake — I fought many of the 
enemy oh the mountain — I killed some and escaped — 
I made a long fast and prayed. I heard and saw 
what I told you in my trances. I now add this, — 
war against the Mohawks must end — The prisoners 
must be released and sent home with large presents 
to the relatives of their dead companions. 

(Mask and rattle.) 
Hatiria. 

Chiefs and braves — The False Faces also have 
taken Counsel with the spirits. I dreamt that a 
wolf stepped on a nest of rattlesnakes — They 
tried to bite him — He gnashed his teeth and four 
lay dead. The message of Hiawatha is from the 
Moliawk gods and not from those of Onondaga. 
The Double-Sighted. 

The war has begun, we must exterminate the 
Mohawks, or they will punish us. 
Atotarho. 

What fear ye Onondagans! Are ye not able for 
the people of the Island? Surely the prudence of 
Hiawatha is great, but it lessens the power of the 
warrior in the face of the enemy — Wherever ye 
hear the voice of Altotarho, there shall ye hear of 
scalps and expeditions, war paint and battle axes, 
scars, stratagem, war, and ever war! (rattles). 
Red Wings. 

My children, seek not to shatter a mountain — 
the vision of Hiawatha the truthful cannot be set 
aside. What, shall men dare to reply to the Great 
Spirit? It is necessary to fight the enemy — It is 
wrong to fight our friends — I am not proud of 
the Onondagas in this war. 
Hiawatha. (Bow.) 

War is wrong if it can be avoided and is not. 
Too long have the mothers wailed for their elder 
sons that came not back in summer. Too long 
have we cut off the fingers of the captives, and 
exhorted each other to make our hearts of stone. 
I see a better day. Our children shall play in safety 
— our hunters shall not hide their trails — our 
women shall sing in the cornfields. This is the way 
it shall be brought about. The five nations, the 
brave Mohawks, the great Onondagans, the Cayu- 
gas, the Oneidas, the mighty Senecas, will together 
make a chain of silver of five links — we shall build 
one Long House for the five — Ye shall found a 
league of the five nations and bind it with belts 
of wampum. Every year we shall meet and the 
silver belt shall be brightened. 



Hiawatha's 
vision. 



The War 
chief. 



Hitiria's ap- 
peal against 
Hiawatha. 



The Double- 
sighted chief 
for war. 

Atotarho for 
War. 



Red Wings 
supports Hia- 
watha. Is 
ashamed of 
war. 



Hiawatha's 
successful ap- 
peal. 



17 



Red Wing 
supports Hia- 
watha again. 



Red Wing to 
Mohawk pris- 
oners. 



Hiawatha's 

conference at 

the sacred 

white stone. 

Failure. 

Atotarho 

thwarts him by 

starting on a 

war party 

against the 

Cherokees. 



If any tribe submit to the league there shall be 
peace with it. If any hurt not the League, it will 
the League not hurt. But if the hindmost cul) 
of the League be snapped at, woe to the hunter. 
We siiall be feared, but we shall be just^— A\'ailing 
shall finally be heard no more, nor blood of men be 
seen in the woods (All in favor of it, but afraid of 
Atotarho). 
Red Wings. 

Hiawatha, thou speakest of a League of many 
nations— As the sun and moon move slowly across 
the lake so goeth the pace of a wise Council. Mean- 
wliile we must send the captives back. 
Hiawatha. 

By the side of the lake there is the white stone. 
Let all the people meet there a day hence for a 
council about the League. Get ready for the war 
path. 

Atotarho and Hatiria leave. 
Red Wings. 

Brave Mohawks — enter our wigwams — shake the 
elliows of our people — feast with us — ye shall 
carrv home wampum and amulets with which we 
woukl undo the wrong we have done. 

(Sends them home with presents.) 

All leax'e but Arrow Maker and Hiawatha. 
Arrow Maker. 

Hatiria hates thee, but thou art so much greater 
that I believe thou wilt be the victor (pause). 
I hope you may succeed at your peace meeting. 
The battle is sometimes won by the wounded. 
(Scene. 

White Stone. ALat of rushes — Hiawatha 
seated— Bunch of white wampum belt — fire pile 
ready. Hiawatha's friends around him — women 
and children. 

Atotarho comes in full war-paint — young men, 
war-paint. All go and leave Hiawatha. 

Hiawatha takes his belts and goes to his canoe 
sad — ^Arrow shot into it — robe over his head as he 
loaves. 
Atotarho (preparing for war with the Cherokees). 

Ho — warriors, who are not afraid of enemies and 



Curtain. — In the land of the Mohawks. 



Girl frightened 

at the sight of 

an Onondaga 

warrior. 



Dekaneweda. 

Girl, what has frightened thee so? 
Girl. 

A man of Onondaga. 
Dekaneweda. 

Did he speak? Was he painted? 
Girl. 

He did not speak — he w^as not painted nor armed. 
Strings of white shells covered his breast — He looked 
good, but his Onondaga featlier frightened me. 

(To three women close behind.) 
Dekaneweda. 

Light vour fires and heat the cooking stones red. 
Take down your corn ears to roast, for the house 
belongs to whoeA'er stands at the threshold, and. 
tliough this man be Onondagan, he comes with 
white shells of peace — {\\\ obey). 

Warily peeping through the saplings, in one hand 
a tomahawk, in the other a pipe. 



IS 



Dekaneweda. 

Clan brother, Hiawatha. 
Hiawatha. 
Saigo, Dekaneweda. 

Procession of Mohawks. 
Dekaneweda. 

Hiawatha — (Laughter. Weeping with gladness Hiawatha's 
—Shout Saigo many times— Hiawatha! Several ^Ify** ("^§10-° 
times. Passing the pipe). hawks. 

Hiawatha (says) 

Mohawks, I come from Onondaga (Silence). 
(Threats — fists.") I come rejected and driven out— 
I am henceforth a Mohawk. (Dancing in glee as 
they hear. 
Dekaneweda. 

Quiet! Silence! 
Serontha. 

Let us go forth and avenge Hiawatha. Let us 
burn the lodges of Onondaga. Hiawatha shall lead 
us. 
Dekaneweda. 

Quiet. Silence. Young men, listen to the old. Hiawatha 

•Er:oU.o*t,„ restrains the 

Hiawatha. y^^^g ^^^ 

Assuredly I would lead you if I spoke words of and lays be- 
my own, but the words I speak, O children of fore them his 
Tiotiake, are the words of the Thunder and the ^ federacy?"' 
Sun — of the Master of Life. I have been on a 
long journey — I have slept on the low shores of 
the Salt Lake. I have been on the little river of 
the Senecas, thence to the full flooded river of the 
Oneidas. I saw their strongholds, the great expanse 
of waters and their palisade, up among the moun- 
tains. I gave the sign of peace — It was not returned. 
They mistrusted me when they saw my Onondaga 
feather. Their bows were pressed upon me when 
a chief called out, Hiawatha. 

The Oneidas are our younger brothers. They 
received me gladly. They have one heart with 
you, and hate the Onondagas because of their 
breaking the peace of the calumet so falsely with 
you. They are ready to make the treaty of peace 
with us. Many Onondagas have fled into the land 
of the Oneidas because of the cruelty of Hatiria and 
his false faces. Hatiria tried to kill the Arrow 
Maker, but killed another man instead. The Arrow 
Maker has fled, awaiting the return of Atotarho. I 
collected there a pouch of white shells. I came 
from there by the river of the Mohawks (that river 
will be j'ours), arriving last night. I heard your 
war songs from afar — I slept and dreamt — The 
Master of Life gave to me a vision. He spoke to 
me of the future of our race — He told me that we 
should be conciuerors for a time, but that after 
should come a strange race, in number like the 
drops of rain. He told me to make friends with 
them and with all men — that peace was better 
than war. He has spoken to me before in other 
ways. I have spoken his message, which is a mes- 
sage of peace, peace first among ourselves (cries). 

Atotarho and Hatiria, the chief of the False 
Faces of the Onondagas, have opposed me success- 
fully so far, but most of the Onondagans hate Hiawatha 
Hatiria and are our friends. Atotarho is a great wins the Mo- 
chief and I will yet win him over. He will make hawks, 
full reparation to the Mohawks and be the great 
war-chief of the mighty long-house of the five na- 
tions. Chief of Two Equal Statements. 

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Dekaneweda 
supports the 
Iroquois Con- 
federacy. 



Return of Ato- 
tarho's success- 
ful war party. 



Hatiria accuses 

Hiawatha of 

having driven 

away the Onon- 

dagas. 



Hatiria ac- 
cuses Hiawa- 
tha. 

The Cherokee 

girl captive 

calls Hatiria a 

coward. 



Red Wing tells 
Atotarho that 
Hatiria may be 
the cause of 
the arrow ma- 
ker's absence. 



Dekaneweda. 

Hiawatha, it is not easy for us to forgive Onon- 
daga, but thou art a true Mohawk and we listen 
to thee. 

Hiawatha, Son of the Spirits, much have I heard 
of thy work for a union of the five tribes, henceforth 
thy labor is done. Stay thou in the lodge, and our 
Father, the Divine, will send his great light unto 
all hearts and will enable me to lead the nations 
into the Long House of Friendship. Its east door 
shall be at the sunrise and its west door shall be 
at the sunset. Thou hast proposed and worked 
for the league, and thine shall be the glory for ever. 
I will finish the league, and though dying I shall 
have a small share of thy glory forever in the assem- 
bly of the tribes. To-day I depart to visit the other 
nations. 

Curtain. — Scene in Onondaga. 

Procession — Atotarho and his war party return 
with the beautiful Cherokee captive and scalps — 
war whoop — screams of squaws and boys. 

Hatiria and followers come out from Mystery 
Lodge. 
Atotarho. 

Show me the holes of the woodchucks! Wliere 
have m3' people hidden from the dogs? Where are 
the Onondagas. 

Where are the rattlesnakes? Has the Huron 
stamped them out with his foot? Has the Mohawk 
chased them away in my absence. I .see only 
women and children and aged chiefs. Lo, had 
we really been Cherokees the tribe had been de- 
stroyed. 
Hatiria (sententiously). 

The cause is the false Hiawatha. He has slain 
one of our warriors. He has led away the Arrow 
Maker and many of our people to the land of the 
Oneidas and the Mohawks. 
Atotarho. 

Hath Hiawatha done this? Is it true that the 
Arrow Maker is gone. There is none other that can 
make a war arrow. 
Hatiria. 

lieware of Hiawatha and his friends. 
Atotarho. 

Bah — cowards. 
Cherokee (to Hatiria). 

Thou art a coward. 
Hatiria. 

What sayest thou, woman.? 
Cherokee. 

Thy words have the sound of one who lives by lies. 
Hatiria. 

Strange woman — who art thou? Thou shalt die 
by fire — False faces seize her (warriors step between) 
—No! No! 
Cherokee Woman. 

Body of a chief — heart of a rat, I fear neither 
thee nor thy ghosts — Where are the scalps thou 
hast taken? (Laughs and turns away.) 

Hatiria returns to Mystery Lodge. 
Atotarho. 

]{((1 Wings, where is the Arrow Maker? 
Red Wings. 

The Cherokee woman may be in part right about 
Hatiria. The Arrow Maker hath disappeared, but 



20 



there was blood at the door of his lodge. Hatiria 

loved him not. 

Atotarho. 

Where are the others, Sabjenwat and Nishen? 
Where are they? 
Red Wings. 

Who killed them I know not. I am old. The 
blood at his porch was not shed by the Arrow Maker 
or by Hiawatha. An attempt was made to kill the 
Arrow Maker, I believe. 
Atotarho. 

Who did it then? 

(Women pass with deer bone hoes. Cherokee 
among them. Hatiria approaches.) 
Atotarho. 

Ho! Hatiria, where are the scalps thou hast 
taken? 

(Pause.) 

What hast thou from the spirits — (Cherokee 
pauses). 
Hatiria (putting shell to his ear, chants). 

He was born upon an island. He was born a Mo- 
hawk — he is no Onondagan — he is a treacherous 
Mohawk — I hear the Mohawks approaching — a 
large war party — Hiawatha is among them. 

The two chiefs confer — A hunter comes running 
in — blown. 
Hunter. 

I have seen a large party of Mohawks — I have 
trailed them. They are marching directly here — 
(Excitement and preparation). 

Mohawk Chief approaches with pipe, wishing to 
be heard — says his men are camped close by. He 
spreads out a shining band of white wampum. 
Dekaneweda. 

Great is Atotarho the Onondaga. Great is Ato- 
tarho the war chief. I am Dekaneweda tiie war 
chief of the Mohawks. 
The Mohawks. 

Great is Hiawatha who has received much kind- 
ness from the Onondagas, from the Arrow Maker, 
from his clan brother. 
To Atotarho — the great. 

Hiawatha is true to Onondaga. When our war- 
riors were singing their war songs and preparing 
for battle with the Onondagas Hiawatha came to 
us, peace pipe in hand — and said, Atotarho is a 
great chief — Among the Onondagas we have many 
friends — We must make all the Onondagas our 
friends, as we have made the Oneidas, the Cayugas, 
the Senecas, our friends. Then from one great salt 
sea to another the five nations shall forbid war; 
they shall punish all those who do injustice; they 
shall grow rich and mucli happiness shall gladden 
all hearts. (Cherokee comes up and listens with 
interest.) 
Red Wings. 

Tin' words are good — often have I spoken to Atotarho re- 
Hiawatha of these things — Let us hear Atotarho. pulses the 
Atotarho. friendly ad- 

Here is my answer (holding up war clubs and Kaneweda, the 
spear). Mohawk. 

Hatiria's Dance — (Red Wings draws away De- 
kaneweda). 
Red Wings. 



Hatiria tells of 
Mohawk party 
approaching. 



Scout tells of 

Mohawk's 

coming. 

DeKaneweda's 
peace mission. 

DeKaneweda 
tells Atotarho 
that their mis- 
sion is to make 
peace. 



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Come, it is no use — Hatiria triumphs again. 
Dekaneweda. 

I return to Hiawatha. 
Hatiria. 

The False Faces triumph, our gods are the true 
gods of the Onondagas. 
Cherokee. 

Atotarho, you are being led by a poor thing — 
Simple it is to foretell like Hatiria, for I myself saw 
Cherokee tells the smoke signs upon the mountains whereby the 
wro^ng°an<i^ approach of the Mohawks was signalled and in my 
land we do it much better. As for those chieftains, 
think ye such men would make an ignoble use of 
the calumet. Not such an one is that Dekaneweda, 
not such is anyone tliat bears himself so like 
an eagle. This tale of Hatiria's is like his tales of 
the ghosts. 



pours con- 
tempt on Ha 
tiria. 



Hatiria at- 
tempts to 
frighten the 
Onondaga vil- 
lage by appear- 
ing as a spirit. 



Atotarho 
chases Hatiria 
the impositor. 



The Cherokee 

accepts a place 

in Atotarho's 

lodge. 



Two false faces 
attempt to 
murder the 
Cherokee. At- 
otarho stran- 
gles them in 
the tepee. 



Apparition of the man-eating ghost — All the 
women run except the Cherokee woman. 
Cherokee. Rushing forward. 

I have caught thee thou god, thou ghost, thou 
evil one. Thou wouldest frighten us. Thou shalt 
not escape me. Come, off thou magic robe, come 
off thou mask of chalk, thou hair of bear skin. 
Aha! wooden face, not so would'st thou frighten 
children and women in the land of tlie Chcrokces! 
Coward of cowards! Man eating ghost, disturber 
of villages. Thou are brave among tlie Onondaga 
women, stand here and face the battle lord (pushing 
him forward into the presence of Atotarho). Ha- 
tiria runs. Thou liar! Thou rat! Hatiria jumps 
from the cliff. 

Atotarho (after looking over — smiling to the 
Cherokee). 

Thou she-bear— 

Look for Hatiria — if you find him dance the 
coward's dance around him and then I will attend 
to him. 

Daughter of the Eagle, I have prepared thee 
a place in my lodge — thou shalt be perfectly free, 
like the women of my clan who dwell with me. 
WI'O wert tliou in the land of thy mother? 
Cherokee. 

A child of as great as thou art. I have never been 
slave to a man but I will accept a place, O Chief, 
in thy lodge. 
Atotarho. 

Post sentinels around the village. The Mohawks 
may return outside the tepee. 

Tliat night — False faces return — two men with 
masks. 

False Faces — Where did she choose her place? 
The other one points to it — Crawl in — Hatiria in 
tlie background — Kill her sure — The gods will 
l>less you. 
Atotarho. 

Die murderers, cowards, M'ho would kill a woman — 
fit followers of the snake Hatiria (Choking an 
Indian). 

CURTAIX. 



The Cayuga 
tells of Hia- 
watha's mis- 
sion to them. 



Scene. 
Arrival of a Cayuga. 

Your Hiawatha is among us — He is honored by 
us all. The Senecas, the Oneidas and Ca)aiga have 



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formed an everlasting peace pact with him. De- 
kanewcda is with him — We have no orator Uke him. 
He has made the four nations one. He is a friend 
of Atotarho. He hopes the Onondaga will join the 
chain and make it one of five links. (Cherokee 
comes near.) Where is this Hiawatha? I would 
like to see him. He is a great man. Atotarho 
shows rage and jealousy. 

(The Cherokee goes away with the Cayuga.) 
Atotarho, 

Warriors, make ready for war with the Mohawks 
and the other traitors. Atotarho makes peace with 
no one, fears no one — stop — What good will it do 
me to kill Mohawks and lose my own warriors? 

Ah — woman of the Cherokees, bitter, bitter is it 
that thou wilt not love me but must seek for Hia- 
watha — His she may be now. 



Fishing parties are formed — Tillage industries- — 
Pound corn — Make war bonnets — Arrows — Pad- 
dles — War cry is heard — The Mohawks come, a 
great band. 
Atotarho, 

Arm yourselves, men — every man — no Mohawk 
will leave here alive. 
Red Wings, 

Atotarho, see the pipe of peace. It is not war. 
It is a Council they seek. 
Atotarho. 

False, false, be ready every man — Let every man 
hide — do not shoot until I say so — W^omen and 
children get back to the woods — quick. 

Hiawatha lands and presents the pipe. 

Atotarho grasps his great hammer. 
Cherokee. 

Atotarho. 
Atotarho, 

O ^N'oman, is it thus thou hast repaid me for the 
tfust I placed in thee. After spurning me you flee 
to Hiawatha — O Snake, O Moon daughter, O false 
one. 
Cherokee, 

Atotarho, knowest thou not why I left thee — 
why I went to Hiawatha? It was to make my 
Atotarho the greatest man in the world — I bring 
thee the head cliiefship of the Long House that is 
to shelter all the nations. 
Hiawatha. 

The custom saith — It shall be in the keeping of 
the Principal Chief. (Presents him the great pipe.) 

Atotarho drops the club, bends his head, turns 
away his eyes. 
Cherokee, 

Atotarho — my Atotarho, Chief of the AVorld! 
Atotarho, 

O Maiden, 
true woman, 

EST OF MEN. 

Hiawatha. 

Nay, the Council of nations hath chosen, and 
hath chosen the best. Let all the people come to- 
gether (gathering). 

Here, children of the Sun, we build a house of 
living trees. The number of its hearths is five. 
Whoever will enter its doors may sit at the fire 
and the women will bring him roasted corn. Its 



The Cherokee 
determines to 
go to Hiawa- 
tha to help 
him. 



Atotarho 's in- 
decision is tor- 
mented by his 
love af the 
Cherokee. 



During the 
Cherokee's ab- 



Hostile recep- 
tion of Hia- 
watha by the 
jealous Ato- 
tarho in spite 
of the pipe of 
peace. 



The Cherokee 
melts the heart 
of the fierce 
Atotarho, as 
she proves to 
him that she 
went away for 
his sake. 



look not at me so softly, brave and 
not I, but Hiawatha is the Great- 
Let the Pipe be given to him. 



Hiawatha re- 
fuses the head 
chiefship offer- 
ed him by Ato- 
tarho. 



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doors shall be open to all. The Doorkeeper of the 
Dawn shall be the Mohawk, the Doorkeeper of the 
Sunset shall be the Seneca. 

The Grand Chief Shall be Atotarho of the 
Onondagas, and his successors shall bear his name, 
and the Council shall meet at Onondaga yearly, 
under the Pine tree. 

No one of our nations shall oppress the other, 
nor move it against its will. 

In wampum shall the story be kept, and never 
shall it cease from your memories — the tale of the 
dav when ye founded the great Peace. 

(End up with Mohawk songs of joy.) 

Curtain. 

(Scene 15 Years Later.) 

The men are greyer. Runners approach. 

Koweh, Koweh! The Algonquins and Abenakis 
approach in many canoe.s — painted and armed. 
Atotarho. 

Prepare, warriors! No Algonquin shall return — 
Let us go to meet them. 
^Champlain''^ After The Battle OF Lake Champlain. 

On the north side of the island, Champlain and 
his men depart with their spoils. 

Scene — The Irocjuois return — Wailing. 

Atotarlio the brave is gone — Dekaneweda the 
gn>at and good was destroyed by the thunder of 
the white ghosts — The gods war against us. Burial 
ceremonies and songs. 

Woe! Woe! Woe! Hiawatlia foretold it. O Hia- 
watha, return to our councils. Let thy Spirit 
return. 

Curtain. — Next season — Arrival of the Dutch — 
Runner. 

Here white men appear from the south, but there 
are Lulians among them— See. 
Tekarihoken. 

These may be the men with whom Hiawatha 
told us to make peace. We have no enemies to the 
south — See the Mohawk feather. It is our own 
that guide them. Joy — joy. 
Mohawk Guides. 

Tlu'sc are friends come to trade with us. Tliey 
make the thunder and lightning and sell us the 
sticks of black copper to fire them. 

See! See! (Strangers land). Received with fear 
and trembling — women and children running away. 
Teharihoken. 

We fought white men eating gliosts from the 
Arrival of Cor- north who have a flower for a token. They came 
^^^' with our enemies — The Algonquins, Abenakis, and 

Touduinans. They had thunder sticks like these. 
Dutch Leader. 

They will never defeat you again — we will give 
you these and show you how to fire and kill your 
enemies and the big game of your woods — See, 
how it is done; loads, fires. 
Tekarihoken. 
Adoption of -yy^ ^^.jn „\y^, y,„, j-„rg^ j^g ^anv as your canoes 

Iroquois!—" ^^^ carry — we will l)o your friends — Quote Long- 
treaty of friend follow — We will make you a chief — Corlear — Adop- 
Iven to Cor- *'°" °^ — Shakes hands all around — Corlaer gives 
laer. presents, sees their dances, and departs — The 

Indians fire a salute and sing a good-bye song and 
dance the snake dance that he may have a pros- 
perous voyage. 

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